Gu Yuena sat up slightly, her long silver hair swaying gently, and picked up the thick stack of technical reports on the table.
The entire technical report was about a thousand pages long, which wasn't heavy for a Soul Master; they could easily be picked up with two fingers.
However, Gu Yuena felt it was very heavy.
She gently bit her lip, her gaze complex.
She realized that what she had always longed for might be in her hands.
Huo Yuhao, on the other hand, seemed indifferent, sipping his coffee and casually admiring the appearance of the maids around him, nodding occasionally.
The maids here were all real women, not Huo Yuhao's technology and ruthless work.
So Huo Yuhao had no psychological burden when admiring them; the ones in Xilu City were a different story.
Customers who didn't know the truth were fine, and because of the witch's characteristics, each of those maids was top-notch in appearance and possessed a certain allure.
But those who knew the truth dared not admire their appearance closely, for fear of questioning their sexual orientation.
Seeing Gu Yuena's nervous expression, Huo Yuhao smiled.
"Don't just stand there, take a look."
"This is a confidential document for others, but you are a council member of the Passionate Shrek City, and you are qualified to read it."
"If you don't understand anything, you can ask me."
"I can interpret it for you."
Gu Yuena nodded her head heavily, her throat trembling, and then opened the document.
The second page was a technical overview written by Roman himself, which surprised Gu Yuena.
She knew that Roman was very knowledgeable and even knew some special soul skills, such as the ice-blue figure created with soul bones that she had seen before.
She didn't expect that he had also contributed to this technology.
Gu Yuena did not follow Huo Yuhao's advice to go directly to the detailed overview on the last page.
She felt that she was not stupid, and she should be able to understand this technology, right?
Soon, this technical report directly taught Gu Yuena how to make a dragon.
She only read two or three pages and felt dizzy.
In just three pages, mathematical reasoning took up most of the space, along with a lot of diagrams and transformations.
She did not understand most of the mathematical reasoning, such as Fourier transforms, convolution theorems, or Markov chains.
The knowledge entered through her left ear and exited through her right.
Even with her computational power surpassing even Tianmeng Ice Silkworm's, she was helpless against these mathematical deductions.
After all, she simply didn't understand the knowledge; she'd never seen the theorems and formulas before.
No matter how strong her computational power, it was useless.
Strong mental strength only meant strong calculation ability, not high intelligence.
Otherwise, Elex and Tianmeng Ice Silkworm wouldn't have almost been driven to the brink of unconsciousness by the Snow Empress.
The Snow Empress possessed Spirit Realm mental strength; in terms of computational power, she was far superior to the Golden Tortoise Shell, yet in exam scores, the Golden Tortoise Shell utterly crushed the Snow Empress.
Gu Yuena swallowed hard, quickly flipping through the document, trying to find pages with fewer deductions.
Then she discovered that the pages with more text discussed the physical structure of soul beasts and the retention of their souls, memories, and abilities when they transformed into soul spirits.
This involved molecular biology, bioinformatics, genetics, and soul science.
Gu Yuena had heard of this knowledge; the Passion Headquarters Research Institute had offered these courses and even invited her to study, but she had refused.
She had thought that knowledge was useless and she probably wouldn't need it in her life, but now this boomerang had hit her right in the face.
She recognized every single word, but when they were put together, she didn't understand them.
She was even surprised to discover that words could be arranged and combined in this way!
It was just that she didn't understand this particular combination.
Gu Yuena's slender, white legs, pressed together under the table, trembled slightly, then separated and then came together again; she looked quite sweaty.
Seeing this, Huo Yuhao smiled gently and said to the foolish dragon who was showing off,
"Don't force yourself if you don't understand."
"It's full of cutting-edge knowledge."
"Biology and soul science are the foundation, mathematics is the supporting pillar, mysticism and physics intertwine to form the outer shell, and there's even some soul guidance knowledge as embellishment."
"Soul spirit technology is the combined product of a vast amount of knowledge, a work of my and the Passion Research Department working together."
"Of course, I only contributed a small part."
Then, Huo Yuhao made a gesture with his finger that was enough to cost him the Korean market.
Gu Yuena sighed, her purple eyes filled with resentment, thinking to herself,
"Looks like I'll need to visit the Passion headquarters' research department in the future."
"There's still some knowledge I need to learn!"
"I absolutely can't become a dragon without knowledge!"
"Otherwise, even with the technology right in front of me, I won't understand it."
Gu Yuena gave up on trying to understand and accepted Huo Yuhao's suggestion to turn to the last page.
This page was also written by Roman, an overview of the entire soul spirit technology, written in simple and easy-to-understand language, a kindergarten version specifically prepared for laymen.
Gu Yuena quickly finished reading the entire technical overview with her powerful mental strength. The novel concepts and entirely new system made her purple eyes widen in surprise.
She could hardly believe what she had read, reading it repeatedly and even recording the entire document with her mental power.
Gu Yuena's slender fingers instinctively wanted to grip the report tightly, but then she quickly placed her hands on her dress, not wanting to damage the technical report in the slightest.
Her beautiful and mysterious purple eyes now shone with a faint light, and her previously bleak future for soul beasts was suddenly filled with new hope.
Seeing that she had almost finished reading, Huo Yuhao looked at Gu Yuena with a smile and spoke softly.
"How was it?"
"Any questions?"
"You can ask."
"I can explain it to you." "
I was the one who first proposed the Soul Spirit Technology, and I'm confident that no one understands Soul Spirits better than me!"
Huo Yuhao said confidently, playing the accordion with his hand, much like a great commander.
His confident yet somewhat comical figure was reflected in Gu Yuena's eyes. She pursed her lips slightly and then asked,
"What does this soul contract and dissolution mean?"
"Could you explain it to me in detail?"
Huo Yuhao took a sip of coffee and said to her.
"As expected of my secretary!"
"You hit the nail on the head!"
"Contracts and uncontracts are the most crucial technologies in the entire Soul Spirit technology!"
"The Soul Rings currently existing in the Soul Master world, if deconstructed using Soul Science, are a kind of contract, but an extremely domineering one."
"I prefer to call them plunder agreements rather than contracts."
"An agreement to plunder the power and even the soul of a Soul Beast."
"The advantages of Soul Rings are obvious: simple and brutal, they can quickly increase power."
"The disadvantage is that they cannot unleash the full power of a Soul Beast."
"During the fusion process, most of the Soul Beast's power and bloodline are wasted."
"Only a small portion of energy and bloodline forms Soul Rings to help the Soul Master break through."
"Soul Spirit contracts are different. When a Soul Master and a Soul Beast form a contract, the Soul Beast enters the Soul Master's Sea of Spirit as a Soul Spirit."
"Soul Spirits retain the most authentic power of the Soul Beast."
"They can even grant a Soul Master multiple Soul Rings, because the power is fully preserved, allowing them to occupy multiple Soul Ring slots."
"In a sense, this is a weakening of the Soul Master."
"Therefore, I adjusted the Soul Spirit Contract to ensure that the Soul Beast communicates with the Soul Master's essence during the Soul Fusion process."
"The resulting Soul Skill will definitely possess the best characteristics of both the Martial Soul and the Soul Beast."
"Because they are in a conscious state, if the Soul Master and Soul Spirit's wills are united, they can influence the Soul Skill, giving birth to a stronger, unique type of Soul Skill."
"This can be considered an enhancement to the Soul Spirit technology."
"With the advantage of Soul Spirits fighting alongside Soul Masters, the Soul Spirit system can completely replace the Soul Ring system."
After speaking, Huo Yuhao felt a bit thirsty and wanted a sip of coffee, only to find it was already finished.
Gu Yuena immediately handed him her juice.
Huo Yuhao took a sip without hesitation, smacked his lips, and continued,
"Unbinding is the key to Soul Spirit technology, and it's also a bit of my personal motive."
"You should have noticed as well, as I just said, there's no fundamental difference between Soul Rings and Soul Spirits."
"Both Soul Rings and Soul Spirits are appendages of the Soul Master."
"When a Soul Master dies, both the Soul Ring and Soul Spirit dissipate."
Gu Yuena's eyes dimmed visibly. She had indeed realized that Soul Spirit technology was only slightly better than Soul Ring technology, but it couldn't change the relationship between the two races.
"Therefore, I added a contract-breaking feature to the Soul Spirit technology."
"Soul Spirits can actively break their contracts using an item called the 'Charm of Breaking the Laws of All Things,' thus separating themselves from their Soul Masters."
"The 'Charm of Breaking the Laws of All Things' enters the Soul Spirit's body the instant it merges with them."
"There are only two situations in which a Soul Spirit can use the 'Charm of Breaking the Laws of All Things': one is when the Soul Master dies and their Sea of Spirit begins to collapse."
"The other is when the Soul Spirit experiences extreme anger towards the Soul Master, triggering the 'Charm of Breaking the Laws of All Things' with that anger."
"A Soul Spirit deprived of a Soul Master's supply can continue to exist in the outside world using its spiritual power; if its spiritual power is insufficient, it can be maintained using Dream Coins."
"Until it finds another suitable Soul Master."
"By the way, this isn't exactly a secret; the creator of the Magic Network, 'Yege,' is very interested in this technology." "
He offered that if a Soul Spirit actively breaks its contract, the Magic Network can provide it with spiritual power for a hundred years."
"After a hundred years, it can choose to integrate into the Magic Network or form a contract with another Soul Master."
"The above are the details of Soul Spirit contracts and contract-breaking."
"Do you have any more questions?"
Gu Yuena's purple eyes gleamed, her hands clutching the fabric of her white dress tightly.
"Why did you do this?"
"Why research this technology?"
Huo Yuhao smiled at her, saying,
"There's no why."
"Just because I wanted to do it, and I could do it, so I did it."
"A person lives a hundred years, nothing more than leaving something behind in this world."
"Soul Spirit technology is my gift to the world."
"In the future, whoever uses Soul Spirits will inevitably remember me."
"I will become an insurmountable mountain in history."
"And also, I want to change this unchanging world."
"That's all the reason."
Gu Yuena fell silent, her purple eyes gazing deeply at the confident Huo Yuhao, wanting to remember this man forever.
The answer she had been searching for so long had come to her in such a simple way.
As the ruler of the Soul Beasts, she hadn't yet contributed a single effort to the issue between the two races.
This problem was about to be solved by this talented person before her.
This made Gu Yuena feel frustrated, but also happy, because at least the future of the Soul Beasts had gained another path.
"Thank you."
A voice, barely audible, was drowned out by the classical music playing in the maid café.
However, Huo Yuhao heard it with his mental power, though he didn't show it.
Gu Yuena felt her heart beating a little fast; this was the first time she had genuinely thanked someone, even though the other person might not have heard her. Her
delicate, fair face flushed red, and she lowered her head, burying her head in the sand
like an ostrich. She felt a strange, indescribable emotion welling up inside her.
(End of Chapter)
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